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Artists' Writings

Miscellaneous

 
 
Jessica Russell - Architecture / Astrologie
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
forthcoming
Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture / Astrologie considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs.
Strata - Italian Art since 2000 – The Words of the Artists
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
An interdisciplinary perspective upon Italian visual culture through the words of 37 artists active from 2000 to today.
Brandon LaBelle - Dreamtime X
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Dreamtime X is a diary kept between March 2020 and March 2021, capturing the conditions of lockdown as experienced by the author. Articulated in the form of 100 short poetic entries, the publication veers across a set of ambivalent perspectives.
Mieko Meguro - Julia (Uncovered) - The work of Julia Scher – a conversation
2019
English edition
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A talk between three artists around Julia Scher's work.
Judy Chicago - Through the Flower - Mon combat d\'artiste femme
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
First French translation of Judy Chicago's autobiography-manifesto.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets - Textes, entretiens, conférences, lettres (10 volumes box set)
2017
French edition
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236.00 168.00 €
Rémy Zaugg's complete writings in 10 volumes in a box set (new edition).
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets –  Volume 3 - Du même à l\'incertain – 1972-1976/1978
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The third volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1972-1978): analysis and critical evaluation of forms of representation and of perception.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets –  Volume 4 - La Ruse de l\'innocence – Chronique d\'une sculpture perceptive 1973-1980
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The fourth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1973-1980): a collection of texts on Donald Judd and minimalist sculpture.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 1 - Constitution d\'un tableau – Journal – 1963-1968/1988
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The first volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1963-1968/1988): entitled The Making of a painting, this transcript of Zaugg's diary revolves around the notion of artistic discourse, and how it is directly influenced by paintings.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 10 - Relations – 1982-2004
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The tenth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1982-2004): the publication gathers texts, interviews, and correspondences on ethics, as well as a series of interviews on cross-cutting themes and projects. It features also a chronology, a list of exhibitions, and a bibliography.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 5 - De la peinture et des images – 1980-2005
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The fifth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1980-2005): a series of texts of utmost importance, related to the great pictorial and philosophical researches of the 1980s. Alongside these texts, the publication features a collection of interviews and letters to friends, colleagues, art dealers, curators, and art collectors.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 6 - Le Lieu de l\'œuvre – 1982-1993
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The sixth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1982-1993): featuring some of the most influential texts written by the Swiss artist on art museum.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 7 - Exposer – 1984-2004
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The seventh volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1984-2004): the publication brings together texts that formulate a practice and a criticism of exhibition that goes beyond genres and mediums, using concrete projects in given architectonic situations.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 8 - Conversations avec Jean-Christophe Ammann – Portrait – 1988-1989
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The heighth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1988-1989): a portrait of Jean-Christophe Ammann.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 9 - L\'Art pour la ville – 1986-2005
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The ninth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1986-2005): a reflection on the artist's projects for public spaces, illustrated with personal statements and sketches.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 2 - La Découverte de la sémiologie – 1970-1979
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The second volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings: five texts from the 1970s which highlight the influence of semiology (de Saussure, Barthes, Levi-Strauss…). on Zaugg's theoretical thought and practice.
Hans Hartung - Autoportrait
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The critical edition of Hans Hartung's autobiographical writings.
Hans Hartung - Autoportrait
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The critical edition of Hans Hartung's autobiographical writings.
Michael Corris - Leaving Skull City - Selected Writings on Art
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
A compilation of insightful, first-hand accounts of art making, art criticism, and exhibition organizing from the early-1970s to the present.
Lucio Fontana - Ecrits (manifestes, textes, entretiens)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
An anthology of Fontana's manifestos, texts and interviews.
Lucio Fontana - Ecrits (manifestes, textes, entretiens)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
An anthology of Fontana's manifestos, texts and interviews.
Gerhard Richter - Textes
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Richter's texts, essays, letters, manifestos, and interviews.
Gerhard Richter - Textes
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Richter's texts, essays, letters, manifestos, and interviews.
Bernard Piffaretti - Si vous avez manqué la première partie… - Fortune critique, écrits et entretiens, 1982-2007
2008
French edition
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22.00 15.00 €
Writings and interviews by (and around) one of the main actors of the return to painting.
Yayoi Kusama - Manhattan Suicide Addict
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
26.00 15.00 €
First French translation of the Kusama's psychedelic novel, published first in 1978 during the exile of the artist in New York.
Gottfried Honegger - Homo scriptor
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Honegger' eclectic writings since 50 years.
Liam Gillick - Gabriel Tarde - Underground (Fragments of Future Histories)
2004
English edition
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(last copies available!)
Script of the movie by Liam Gillick, adaptation of Underground Man - Fragments of Future Histories, by Gabriel Tarde (1896).
Piero Gilardi - Not for Sale - A la recherche de l\'art relationnel 1982-2000
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
This publication assembles twenty years worth of social, aesthetic and philosophical reflexions that essentially place the individual within the contemporary community.
Chen Zhen - The discussions
2003
English edition
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Chen Zhen talks to Daniel Buren, Hou Hanru, Eleonor Heartney, Emma Lavigne, Ken Lum, Enrico Lunghi, Yves Michaux, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Jérôme Sans and Nari Ward and others who shared his adventure in art.
Öyvind Fahlström - Essais choisis
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
A selection of essays by the artist, poet, writer, happening-maker, cinematographer, art and literary critic.
Liam Gillick - L\'île de la discussion - Le Grand Centre de Conférence
1998
French edition
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(last copies available!)
11.00 5.00 €
Richard Nonas - Get out/Stay away/Come back - A propos de sculpture et de la sculpture en œuvre
1995
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
24.00 12.00 €
Artist's writings.
Hans Haacke - Libre-échange
1993
French edition
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15.20 8.00 €
A conversation between the sociologist and the artist: a sociology of art at the service of a political project.
Paul-Armand Gette - Textes très peu choisis - Ecrits de 1964 à 1988
1989
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
21.00 10.00 €
Collection of texts.
Lily van der Stokker - How I Went to New York - 1983-1992
2022
English edition
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sold out
Lily Van der Stokker's illustrated autobiography of her life in New York in the 1980s, when she opened a gallery in the East Village.
Chen Zhen - Les entretiens
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
Chen Zhen talks to Daniel Buren, Hou Hanru, Eleonor Heartney, Emma Lavigne, Ken Lum, Enrico Lunghi, Yves Michaux, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Jérôme Sans and Nari Ward and others who shared his adventure in art (available in English edition).
Philippe Parreno - Speech Bubbles
2001
French edition
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sold out
An anthology of Parreno's writings.
Dan Graham - Rock/Music Textes
1999
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
A collection of Dan Graham's articles about rock and experimental music.
Liam Gillick - Erasme est en retard
1997
French edition
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sold out
Artist's writings.
Rémy Zaugg - Herzog et de Meuron, une exposition
1995
French edition
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sold out
How to exhibit the architecture? Two Swiss architects answer this question (a conversation with Rémy Zaugg).
Rémy Zaugg - Le musée des Beaux-Arts auquel je rêve ou le lieu de l\'œuvre et de l\'homme
1995
French edition
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sold out
In his influential 1986 text, Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (1943–2005) laid out fundamental ideas on the art museum. For him, the museum is an everyday tool that enables the encounter between viewer and work—raising the question of the kind of architecture appropriate for such a space (available in English edition)
Claude Rutault - Mes peintures ont la vie courte mais elles ont plusieurs vies - définitions/méthodes vol.7
1994
French edition
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sold out
Artist's writings.
Dan Graham - Rock my Religion
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
Dan Graham - Ma position - Ecrits sur mes œuvres
French edition
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